PM Shehbaz's achievements driving 'foreign agent' Imran mad: Maryam

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice-President Maryam Nawaz has said that diplomatic achievements and respect that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan have received from the outside world is driving the "foreign-funded agent" mad, in an apparent reference to former premier Imran Khan.

"Fitna Khan's nonsense about Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is showing his anguish," she wrote on his official Twitter handle on Monday.

The PML-N stalwart also said that Imran Khan has to make his "dollars halal". However, she added, the deposed prime minister's destiny is only to be burned in envy.

Read more: Maryam slams Imran for using religion in politics

In another tweet, Maryam wrote that seeing three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif once again setting up the political landscape of Pakistan is a punishment for the opponents, adding that they had crossed all limits of oppression against the PML-N supreme leader.

She further said that the opponent left no stone unturned in order to eliminate Nawaz Sharif from the politics of Pakistan.

On Thursday, Maryam accused Imran of using religion in his ‘dirty politics’. Speaking to the media outside the Islamabad High Court, the PML-N leader added that the PTI chairman changed the definition of religion according to his liking.

“Religion is a personal matter, but it does not when you say voting for the PML-N and not voting for the PTI is a sin,” she said.

The ousted prime minister, the PML-N said, had declared that his party members, who decided to switch sides, were committing shirk.

“Shirk’s definition is associating partners with God. Are you [Imran] changing the entire dictionary and the meaning of religion for your disgusting politics?” she inquired.

“If this is shirk, according to you, then you are the biggest sinner because you admitted in TV interviews that you used the establishment to bring people into your government for voting,” she added.

She urged Imran not to use religion for politics as it “hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims”.

She further said PM Shehbaz had saved the country from default. The PML-N leader added that the country's economy was gradually recovering.

She further said the government must not come under pressure to hold early elections.